This Day In Cuban History

March 10, 1952  Convinced that he could not win the elections scheduled for June 1952, Fulgencio Batista overthrew President Carlos Prío’s regime in a bloodless and masterfully executed coup d’état […]

On March 8, 1896, General Valeriano Weyler, Cuba’s Spanish Governor, issued a military report announcing that the island’s Western provinces were now under the Spanish army control and that the

By February 26, 1898, the biggest circulation duel between the New York powerful newspaper publishers, Joseph Pulitzer (The World) and William Randolph Hearst (The Journal) was in full swing.  The

Hermanos al Rescate (Brothers to the Rescue), organized by Jose Basulto in 1991, with financial support from individual donors and several exile groups to fly over the Florida Strait to

On February 24, 1895, Cubans restarted, with the Grito de Baire, the war for independence against Spain that began in 1868-1878.  Marti’s pilgrimage throughout the Americas in the 1880’s and

At dawn on February 17, 1957, Herbert Matthews, The New York Timesjournalist, met with Fidel Castro in the Sierra Maestra.  The meeting took place ten weeks after the “Granma” landing disaster

On February 15, 1898, the U.S.S. Maine blew up and sank in Havana’s harbor killing 268 officers and sailors.  The armored cruiser had come to protect American citizens after Spanish

Paz (or Pacto) de Zanjón.  Armistice signed February 11, 1878, to end the Ten Year’s War (1868-1878).  It won neither Cuban independence nor the abolition of slavery, but it freed

On February 10, 1896, Captain General Valeriano Weyler arrived in Havana and was welcomed by an enthusiastic pro-Spanish population.  The new military governor was quick to realize the severity of